Super Best Audio Friends

  1. Lobby

    General sub-forum area. New members must read the stickied posts in the Tales from the Bully Pulpit sub-forum before posting.

    1. Tales from the Bully Pulpit

      Must read stuff and important announcements.
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      1. How to Win Friends and Influence People

      2. Ambiophonics

      Latest: Donations to SuperBAF YMO May 19, 2019 at 3:24 PM
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    2. General Audio Discussion

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      1. Advice Threads

      2. Leaderboard, Overboard, and Deals

      Latest: The All Purpose Advice Thread fraggler May 21, 2019 at 7:48 AM
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    3. Music and Recordings

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      1. Music and Recordings (vinyl , 8-track, etc.)

      Latest: Electronic Music thread bixby May 21, 2019 at 8:14 AM
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    4. The Meeting Place

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      Latest: FRANADA - Friends in Canada waynestractor May 17, 2019 at 6:54 PM
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    5. Audio Science

      Discussion of blind testing, psychoacoustics, and measurement techniques. Also, preliminary, research, and exploratory measurements should generally be posted here unless the results of your measurement rigs have been established and well known. This is to prevent confusion and difficulty in comparing one measurement with another. Excessive insistence on only very difficult to implement double blind testing results in an automatic one week ban or worse.
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      1. Blind Testing and Psychoacoustics

      2. Measurement Techniques Discussion

      Latest: Sony WH-1000XM3 measurements and thoughts DigitalMaven May 16, 2019 at 3:51 PM
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    6. All Points Bulletin / Be on the Look Out

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      Latest: 403 Errors purr1n Apr 30, 2019
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  2. Personal Audio Gear Discussion

    Personal audio gear reviews , subjective impressions, thoughts, and questions about gear. Any post with a measurement should go in the measurements section below.

    1. Headphones

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      Latest: ZMF New Headphones: Vérité and Aeolus crenca May 20, 2019 at 6:50 PM
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    2. Headphone Amplifiers and Combo (DAC/Amp) Units

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      Latest: conrad-johnson hVA1 - $7000! Cspirou May 20, 2019 at 10:41 PM
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    3. IEMs and Portable Gear

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      Latest: Sony ZX300 bengo May 21, 2019 at 2:01 AM
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    4. Modifications and Tweaks

      Mods, tweaks, cables, power conditioning, etc.
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      Latest: Digital Cables yotacowboy May 21, 2019 at 6:35 AM
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  3. Source Gear Discussion

    1. Digital: DACs, USB converters, decrapifiers

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      Latest: USB Nervosa Thread Decrapifiers, pro interfaces, and bears oh my bixby May 21, 2019 at 8:01 AM
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    2. Computer Audiophile: Software, Configs, Tools

      Players, streamers, operating systems, settings, tagging, etc.
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      Latest: USB streamers...aurender, auralic, sonore etc...anyone getting into this area? ohshitgorillas May 19, 2019 at 4:26 PM
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    3. Vinyl Nutjob World: Turntable and Related Gear

      Anything related to vinyl playback, turntables, cartridges, phonostages, setup, discussions, measurements, etc.
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      Latest: Post your turntable setup...can't get enough of those spinners! bigant May 9, 2019
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  4. Two Channel Gear Discussion

    1. Preamps

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      Latest: Passive Schiit shootout: Saga vs. Freya vs. SYS Kernel Kurtz May 12, 2019
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    2. Power Amps

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      Latest: Upgrade of Music Angel XD8502AIII amplifier Zampotech May 20, 2019 at 10:46 AM
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    3. Speakers

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      Latest: JBL LSR4326P - What JBL Used to Be westermac May 21, 2019 at 8:17 AM
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  5. Measurements (plus subjective impressions)

    Measurements with subjective impressions. Hands, Marv, Ultrabike, AtomicBob, Sorrodje, and cskippy. Unless your measurements have been sanctioned, please post them in the "Audio Science" sub-forum above. To is to prevent confusion as different measurement setups will have different results. Note that Hands' coupler has pinna, which will bump up the 2-3.5kHz region a little bit.

    1. Headphone Measurements

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      Latest: Jupiter Audio Research HD650 Impressions/Measurements (Finalized Mod) ext1 May 20, 2019 at 6:28 PM
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    2. IEM Measurements

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      1. IEM Measurements - La Cenric's IEM Playhouse

      Latest: Massdrop x nuforce EDC3 julian67 May 18, 2019 at 11:53 PM
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    3. Headphone Amplifier Measurements

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      Latest: Loxjie P20 technical measurements Baten May 2, 2019
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    4. Source Measurements

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      Latest: Denafrips Terminator DAC measurements Vtory May 12, 2019
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    5. Portable and Other Gear Measurements

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      Latest: Goldpoint SA2X - Nobsound NS-05P passive attenuator comparison technical measurements bilboda Apr 9, 2019
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    6. Measurement Setups, Systems, and Standards

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      Latest: New portable headphone measuring setup La Cenric Dec 16, 2018
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  6. SuperBAF Special Sub-Forums

    Some of these sub-forums may be restricted to Friends or Contributors. Of course if you can't see it, then it doesn't exist.

    1. EU Forum

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      Latest: FFriends aka French Friends aka Freedom Fries cocolinho Apr 29, 2019
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    2. Loaner Programs

      Loaner program logistics only. Impressions should be in their respective gear category subforums.
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      1. Closed Loaners

      2. Loaner Requests

      Latest: Loaner: Crane Song Solaris DAC fp627 May 21, 2019 at 12:19 AM
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    3. SBAF Blogs

      Please don't start a random blog in this sub-forum. This sub-forum is reserved for VIPs.
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      Latest: Merv's Politically Incorrect Audio Blog geniekid Mar 20, 2019
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    4. DIY

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      Latest: Capacitors bixby May 13, 2019
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    5. For Sale

      HF is probably a better place to reach people for selling most stuff. We reach the same kinds of people as HF, but HF gets 7,000,000 sessions and 35,000,000 pageviews per month. We are about 1000 times smaller and the members here are much more selective in what they purchase.
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      1. Closed (Archived) Sales

      2. Buyer and Seller Feedback (Negative)

      Latest: FS: Naiant Balanced Line Level attenuators beemerphile May 21, 2019 at 6:05 AM
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  7. Non-Audio Stuff

    1. Random Thoughts

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      1. City Guides

      2. Birthdays

      3. Health

      Latest: The Game of Thrones Thread (With Spoilers) msommers May 21, 2019 at 6:56 AM
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    2. Outdoor World

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      Latest: The nearby park bixby May 14, 2019
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    3. Geek Cave: Computers, Tablets, HT, Phones, Games

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      1. Lego and Other Building Bricks

      2. Clash of Clans

      Latest: Post Your Computer Build Dash May 21, 2019 at 8:03 AM
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    4. Food and Drink

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      Latest: Leyenda De Mexico Tequila Extra Anejo StanT May 14, 2019
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    5. Musicians and Instruments

      SHow off your musical instruments and post what instruments you have and your musical accomplishments! Even if you play an instrument just as a hobby, please post your pics and descriptions!
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      Latest: Need Electric Guitar buying advice Elnrik May 16, 2019 at 12:18 PM
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    6. Photography and Cameras

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      Latest: Camera gear discussions Deep Funk May 21, 2019 at 3:50 AM
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    7. Cars, Motorcycles, Boats, Airplanes Talk

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      Latest: BMW 440i xDrive or Audi S5? elmoe May 11, 2019
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  8. Industry Sub-Forums

    1. Product Announcements

      MoTs: Please introduce yourselves first before posting.
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      Latest: Headphones Carbon zerodeefex May 7, 2019
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    2. Beezar

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      Latest: Beezar Audio/ECP Audio History Luckbad May 4, 2019
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    3. Bloom Audio

      https://bloomaudio.com/
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      Latest: Bloom Audio OldDude04 May 21, 2019 at 8:15 AM
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    4. Schiit

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      Latest: The Mike Moffat (#2 at Schiit) Blog Sonorus May 20, 2019 at 8:09 AM
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    5. The Source Audio Video Design Group (TSAV)

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      Latest: March Madness at The Source AV! Luckbad Mar 29, 2019
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    6. Eddie Current

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      Latest: Eddie Current Classic Phonostage / Phono Pre khragon May 12, 2019
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